Saturday 8 February 2014

Block Android apps from phoning home without your permission

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The free NoRoot Firewall prevents nearly all connections to and from your Android phone until you expressly allow the app to access your Wi-Fi or cell network.


There's lots of talk lately about leaky apps: Angry Birds and Google Maps are among the smartphone apps accused of informing the government all about who you are and what you've been up to, as Nick Statt reported late last month.
A recent blog post by Serge Malenkovich of the security firm Kaspersky Labs questions the need for the latest version of Facebook'sAndroid app to automatically access your SMS messages to facilitate the service's two-factor authentication.
Granted, Facebook and other app developers have perfectly legitimate reasons for wanting automatic access to your phone's network connection. That doesn't change the fact that there's a mountain of data being sent from your phone: some of it going to parties you know about, and some of it heading for parts unknown.
In the past, the only way to install a firewall on an Android phone was to "root" the device. This entails granting yourself root permissions, whichLifehacker compares to using Windows as an administrator rather than as a standard user

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